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防守 (fáng shǒu): meaning and stroke order

防守 (fáng shǒu) means to defend, to protect (against).

防守

Simplified
防守
Traditional
防守 (same form)
Pinyin
fáng shǒu

Stroke order of 防守

防

  • fáng to protect; to defend
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

守

  • shǒu to guard; to defend
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 防守

  1. fáng shǒu
    • to defend
    • to protect (against)

Radicals of the characters

防
Radical 阜 (Kangxi radical 170) · 7 strokes · 阝 on the left, 方 on the right
守
Radical 宀 (Kangxi radical 40) · 6 strokes · 宀 on top, 寸 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

防守 in our stories

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  • 几年后，赵奢去世了。秦国的大军打了过来，赵国派老将廉颇在长平防守。

    jǐ nián hòu Zhào Shē qùshì le Qínguó de dàjūn dǎ le guòlai Zhàoguó pài lǎojiàng Lián Pō zài Chángpíng fángshǒu

    A few years later Zhao She died. A great Qin army invaded, and Zhao sent the veteran general Lian Po to defend Changping.

    From the story Fighting battles on paper HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 防守

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).